The offers

Education and mediation

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was a well-connected man with a wide range of interests. He lived in the exciting era of the European Enlightenment, in which education for all, tolerance and human rights were pressing issues - and still are today. Gleim envisioned a "school of humanity". He therefore intended his collections (letters, books, pictures) to benefit posterity during his lifetime. The Gleimhaus offers a variety of points of contact for an entertaining and eventful visit and many activities.

dressed children

For families

The newly designed children's room is a great place to linger. You can sit on the steps of a platform and read, play or listen to audio stories. The clothes and headgear can be tried on. It is also possible to make a silhouette. Please contact the Gleimhaus staff for this.

Contact: Susanne Wiermann
E-mail: gleimhaus.wiermann@halberstadt.de
Tel.: 03941 6871-0

Children's room

For teachers

This is where we publish new information and mailings relevant to you on museum education programmes for special exhibitions. You will also be informed here when there are further training programmes for you at the Gleimhaus. We are also happy to receive your suggestions for further training.

Advice on:

  • age-appropriate practical elements
  • Duration, content and costs of a visit
  • Visits to the restoration workshop, the historical library or the manuscript collection (by arrangement only)
  • Project days and weeks
  • Inclusion programmes

Contact: Susanne Wiermann
E-mail: gleimhaus.wiermann@halberstadt.de
Tel.: 03941 6871-0

Children's room

For children/young people

Interactive discussion tour (duration: approx. 45 min): including trying on 18th century headgear. Thematic focus by arrangement. Alternatively, a tour of the respective special exhibition is also possible. From Year 8: familiarise yourself with the Temple of Friendship using quotations from Gleim and his friends. There is also time for the practical element.

Practical elements with material costs:

  • Making paper (€1/person)
  • Making a leporello (1€/person)
  • Drawing silhouettes using the (almost) original 18th century method with silhouette chair and stork's beak (€2/person)
  • Making a friendship book (blank book block) (€2.50/person). Also in the version with pre-written and illustrated texts/poems that are bound into the book block (€3/person)
  • Writing with a quill pen in the script of Gleim's time and getting to know an old letter folding technique (1€/person).

Poetry competition. Anna Louisa Karsch, a close friend of Gleim, was known for her original poetry, especially her end rhyme poems. Your class will be given a selection of end rhymes and rhyme schemes so that different poems can be created and recited. (1€/person)

Literary role play (without costume): Gleim.net analogue: Who is who? Communicating with letters and circulars. 4 hours. From 9th grade (5€/person)

Building a virtual world with CoSpaces Edu: In this digital workshop, participants can use a kit (CoSpaces) to create their own virtual world with reference to Gleim's timeless values. And all from a distance, without being present in the Gleimhaus. 4th to 6th grade: 2.5 hours (€2.50/person); 7th grade and above: 4 hours (€4/person).
All participants need good WiFi and their own PC/laptop with mouse or a tablet with an external keyboard and mouse. The Gleimhaus will provide instruction and support via Zoom. Maximum 10 participants

left: Axel Litwin, right: Marco Erdmann

For inclusive groups

Customised offers for you and your group: We are happy to develop individual offers tailored to you and your group.

Offers for older people with disabilities: Get to know selected topics and objects. Also in combination with a coffee break.

Offers for visually impaired people: Descriptive audio guide through the permanent exhibition.
Touch tour after hours: Get to know selected objects and materials in a small group.

Offers for people with learning difficulties: Texts and audio guide in simple language. Get to know selected themes and objects.

Offer for people with hearing impairments: Selected topics in small groups, with good eye contact.

Offers on request. Contact: Susanne Wiermann
E-mail: gleimhaus.wiermann@halberstadt.de
Tel.: 03941 6871-0

Unknown artist: Boys in a quarrel, around 1780

For adults/companies

Discussion tour (1 - 1.5 hours / cost: €30 plus admission): Literature and socialising in the Age of Enlightenment, plus talking pictures. On request, robes with skirt and tricorn hat, frills and wig, photos with your mobile phone. Ideal group size: 15 participants. If necessary, your group can be divided and accompanied in parallel.

Cospaces: Virtual Gleim Worlds (duration: 2.5 hours / cost per person: €12): In this digital workshop, participants can use a kit (CoSpaces) to create a virtual world related to Gleim's values. And all from a distance, without being present in the Gleimhaus. The Gleimhaus will provide instruction and support via Zoom.
A maximum of 10 people can take part in the workshop, with a minimum of 5 participants.

The simulation game Streit (duration: 3 hours / cost: €50 plus admission): The poet Gleim is celebrated as a genius of friendship. His "Temple of Friendship" is considered a prime example of the friendship culture of the Enlightenment. But don't think that there were no arguments here!

Disputes are part of friendship and they are part of life. Disputes are an integral part of communication - both in the private and social sphere. It is unavoidable because people have different interests. And some say it is even important, as it harbours opportunities for rapprochement. The decisive factor is that it is dealt with constructively. The ability to argue is therefore a human and democratic virtue that makes living together easier. The workshop begins with an introduction to some of the quarrelling cocks and hens in Gleim's Temple of Friendship and an examination of their disputes. This serves as preparation for a conflict simulation game. A small workshop is available for school classes and colleges.

Network simulation game (duration: 3 hours / cost: €50 plus admission): Circle of friends, acquaintance, rope team, community, society, network, co-operation, college, kinship, connection ... In our different areas of life, we operate in a variety of connections. The Gleimhaus is characterised by the spirit of friendship and cooperation, and friendship was an essential part of Gleim's life. Looking at individual networks in Gleim's Temple of Friendship and their mission serves as preparation for the simulation game. No previous knowledge required. With a team-building effect and fun factor. A small workshop is available for school classes and colleges.

Digital offers

As a networker today, Gleim would certainly have used digital media to keep in touch with his friends and be close to them at all times and in all places.

Light - Laboratory - Vision

If you don't understand where you come from, you can't change anything. We want to awaken interest in the present. To do this, we show a piece of the past. Because the two are connected and determine our future. Because many things were different in the Age of Enlightenment, which we are talking about here, but some things also remained the same.

You can find more information here: Info

MuseumStars

MuseumStars Challenge about Dorothea Milde and her creative year 1920.

Simply download the app to your mobile phone or tablet, search alphabetically for Gleimhaus at museums, get started and get to know the otherwise inaccessible work of Dorothea Milde.
Dorothea Milde (1887-1964) was an artist who lived in Quedlinburg and bequeathed her estate to the Gleimhaus.

Have fun "collecting stars"!

Cospaces Gleimhaus

Experience virtual intermediate worlds in which the Age of Enlightenment meets the present and play is combined with information. The rooms encourage reflection on the themes of history/present/future; friendship/love/relationships; information exchange; leisure/education/meaning of life. The prototype was created by a group of young people from Halberstadt and can be accessed individually at any time.info

The project was made possible by funding from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten e.V. with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.